Preventing Self-Injury and Suicide in Women's Prisons.

Cover -- Copyright and publication details -- Advance reviews of this book -- Dedication -- A Personal Account from Tracey -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- About the authors -- The author of the Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Suicide and Self-injury of Imprisoned Women and Adolescent Girls -- Introduction -- Suicide and Self-injury -- New Punitiveness and Managerialism -- Mental Health Needs -- Themes and Perspectives: Language -- Themes and Perspectives: Criminal Justice Ideology -- Chapter Summary Points -- Future Directions -- Self-injury and Suicide: Research Informed Change -- Overview -- Definitional Issues -- Definitional concerns in prison-based studies -- Contextual Issues Associated with Self-injury and Suicide -- Individual factors -- Situational factors -- Psychosocial factors -- Prison Service Monitoring and Management of Self-injury and Suicide Up Until 2000 -- Strategic Factors in the Year 2000 and Beyond -- Evaluating the Changes -- Chapter Summary Points -- Future Directions -- Self-injury and Suicide Among Imprisoned Women and Adolescent Girls -- Introduction -- Prevalence Rates -- Suicide -- Risk Factors for Self-injury -- Demographic profile -- Clinical factors -- Institutional variables -- Psychological Functions for Self-injury -- Intrapersonal functions -- Interpersonal functions -- Chapter summary points -- Future Directions -- Supporting Women and Adolescent Girls with Poly-victimisation Histories in Custody -- Overview -- Introduction -- Trauma Histories: Poly-victimised Imprisoned Women and Adolescent Girls -- Poly-victimisation -- Effects of pervasive poly-victimisation on health and crime -- Effects of imprisonment on poly-victimised women and adolescent girls -- Supporting women and adolescent girls in prison with poly-victimisation histories -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary points -- Future directions.

Preventing Self-injury and Suicide -- Moving Away from Using 'At-risk' Strategies -- The Prison Environment -- Reception and first night -- Social intervention -- Mental health treatment -- Purposeful activity -- Bullying and safety -- Psychological Interventions for Women and Adolescent Girls Who Self-injure in Prison -- Options modified dialectical behaviour therapy -- Women Offenders Repeat Self-harm Intervention Pilot II (WORSHIP II) -- Complicating Issues -- Chapter Summary Points -- Future Directions -- Staff Training for Self-injury and Suicide -- Overview -- Background -- Prison Officer Training -- Continued training and development -- HM Prison Service training programmes for self-injury and suicide 1993 onwards -- Skills-based training on risk management (STORM) for prison staff -- Current framework for training in self-injury and suicide -- Impact on Prison Staff Working with Self-injury and Suicide -- Chapter Summary Points -- Future Directions -- The Aftermath of a Self-inflicted Death in Prison Custody -- Overview -- Introduction -- Death, Bereavement and the Grief Process -- Suicide bereavement -- Bereavement following a self-inflicted death in prison -- The Coroner Process, Inquest and Verdict -- Self-inflicted Deaths in Prison and their Impact on Families, Prisoners and Staff -- Bereaved families -- Prisoners -- Prison staff -- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Procedures Following a Self-inflicted Death in Custody -- Promoting Resilience in Prison Staff -- Chapter Summary Points -- Future Directions -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- Cries For Help: Women Without a Voice, Women's Prisons in the 1970s, Myra Hindley and her Contemporaries -- Mothering Justice: Working with Mothers in Criminal and Social Justice Settings -- Back cover.

Examines all aspects of the history, present practices, causes and prevention prospects connected to self-injury and suicide in women's prisons.

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